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Kasparov - Petrosian, 1982

Submitted by snits on Thu Mar 19, 2009 1:37am.

A nice positional game by Kasparov against one of the greatest positional players of all time. Read more »

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Kovacevic - Seirawan 1980

Submitted by snits on Tue Mar 17, 2009 11:29pm.

Here is a nice game by Yasser Seirawan that I played through this evening.     Read more »

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Another brutal game in the French Defence

Submitted by snits on Tue Mar 17, 2009 12:24am.

I just played through this game from 1987 between Nigel Short and Jan Timman. Short plays brilliantly and this game almost trumps my all-time favorite Nigel Short game from Tilburg in 1991. In that game Timman was the victim as well. I guess Nigel... Read more »

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A gem from Shirov

Submitted by snits on Mon Mar 16, 2009 3:17am.

Continuing on my way through Neil McDonald's Chess: the art of logical thinking. Tonight I played through this game where Shirov smashes Bareev's French Defence. Shirov's games are always entertaining to play through and sometime soon I plan to wo... Read more »

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Another win for Adams against the Sicilian

Submitted by snits on Sun Mar 15, 2009 2:02am.

Another Adams game appeared in Chess: the art of logical thinking. In this one at one point he has 2 knights and a rook situated on the h-file. His exchange sacrifice in this game is very nice. Read more »

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Kasparov plays the Dragon

Submitted by snits on Sat Mar 14, 2009 3:58pm.

Continuing to work through Chess: the art of logical thinking today. Just played through this game from the 1995 World Championship between Anand and Kasparov. Read more »

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A nice win against the Sveshnikov by Adams

Submitted by snits on Sat Mar 14, 2009 2:36am.

Continued to work through more of Neil McDonald's Chess: the art of logical thinking tonight, and played through this Mickey Adams game from 1992.     A really nice example of securing a knight outpost on d5, plus I like Adams attack at th... Read more »

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Chess Analysis tailored to a player's level

Submitted by snits on Fri Mar 13, 2009 4:06pm.

This was brought up in a note on my page. I don't really know if there is any software out there that does this. I don't think the problem is the variations given by strong software, after all we are searching for the truth of the position. The pr... Read more »

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Back to work!

Submitted by snits on Fri Mar 6, 2009 2:18am.

I have been swamped at my job the past couple of months and with the slowdown in my training when we went on vacation in late November it has been 3 months since I have done any really good training. So I now need to shake off the rust once again ... Read more »

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Training Update

Submitted by snits on Sat Dec 27, 2008 12:01am.

I ended up working through some more games in McDonald's Chess: The Art of Logical Thinking . Anand - Ivanchuk, Linares, 1991   Nunn - Sokolov, Dubai 1986 Shirov - Polgar, Buenos Aries 1994 All 3 of the games were very nice. I really li... Read more »

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